The Europeans always claim that they have historically and traditionally developed a human rights culture and adherence to liberalism. On the human rights front, they believe that they are leading by their sterling example. Several European jurist scholars have attempted to contest, criticise and challenge fundamental rights and the system perpetuated to promote and protect them with the sole aim of strengthening and reinforcing them.

The present volume examines and evaluates the contribution of the European human rights regime, established 60 years ago under the auspices of Council of Europe. It dwells on lessons which Europe and other countries can learn from this experience—at once rich and rewarding—in protecting and promoting human rights. The contributions from scholars, both Indian and European, cover different aspects of this experience and its outcome.

B. Krishnamurthy is a faculty member in the Department of Politics and International Studies, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He is the author of Indo-French Relations: Problems and Perspectives (2005) and Jawaharlal Nehru and the Freedom Movement in French India (2007). He has co-edited with Geetha Ganapathy-Doré a volume on Changing World Order: India, EU and the US–A Trialogue (2009). He is specialising in European Studies and human rights.  

Geetha Ganapathy-Doré is a research accredited Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences of the University of Paris 13, Paris. She is the author of The Post-colonial Indian Novel in English (2011) and co-author of a textbook English for EU Law (2002). She has edited a volume of essays on Anita Desai's In Custody (2009) and co-edited 4 other books in English and French dealing with either Post-colonial literature on European and international relations.